Candy or cracker sample case.



PATENTED MAR. 6, 1906.

E. J. THILBORGBR & P.- 0. LE 00mm.

CANDY OR GRAGKER SAMPLE CASE. APPLICATION IILBD UNE 28, .1905.

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Arman/m UNITED STATES EDWARD J. THILBORGER AND PATENT OFFICE.

CANDY OR CRACKER SAMPLE CASE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 6, 1906.

Application filed J' 11110 28, 1905. Serial No. 267,475.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that. we, EDWARD J. THILBOR- GER and PHILIP C. LE CoRGNE, citizens of the United States, residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented a new and useful Candy or Cracker Sample Case, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a sample-case adapted especially for traveling salesmen and designed for the convenient display of an assortment of such articles as candies or crackers, though the device can of course be employed in connection with the. display of articles of other kinds. 1

The object of the invention is a samplecasein which an assorted lot of the articles to be displayed can be carried and shown without necessitating their handling by the salesman, thus keeping the goods clean and fresh looking. 1

The invention comprises a case having a hinged side and a plurality of alining trays pivotally connected to each other and adapt ed to be drawn outwardly from the side of the case.

The invention also consists in the novel features of construction hereinafter described, shown in the drawings, and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the case closed. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the case open. Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the casing, the trays being shown in elevation and in their normal position. Fig. 4 is a detail side or end elevation of two of the intermediate trays, showing the manner of connecting them and showing in dotted lines their relative position when goods are being displayed. Fig. 5 is a partial plan view of Fig. 4.

In the drawings, A representsa case of any desired size and material provided with a hinged top A, a handle A suitable catches A carried by the top A and locking the said top to the sides, and a hinged outwardlyopen side or front A. Within the casing is arranged a plurality of superimposed trays B, B, and B The tray B rests on and is suitably secured to the bottom of the casing A. This tray has a vertical rear wall and an outwardly-inclined front wall. The trays B, of which I have shown four, though any suitable number may be employed, are rhomboid in cross-section or when viewed from the end. Their front and rear walls have the same angle of inclination as the front wall of the tray B. The top tray is the reverse of the tray B having a vertical front wall and an inclined rear wall similar in slope to the walls of the intermediate'trays. These trays are connected by front straight bars C and rear bars C, inwardly angled at each end, each set of bars connectin two of the trays.

It will be obvious from t e description and drawings that when the case A is closed the trays are held in vertical alinement, but when the front A is let down the trays can be drawn outwardly and downwardly, swinging on the pivotal points of the bars C and C, and they will fall into horizontal alinement, as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 4 and in perspective in Fig. 2. Owing to the slope or inclination of the walls of the trays, they will readily swing into and out of both their vertical or horizontal positions, and when in position to display the goods, as shown in Fig. 2, each tray fits snugly against the adjacent one and there is no space left between the trays. This makes a neat and compact tray having all the advantages of a single tray divided into compartments, and when moved into vertical position the device automatically breaks into a plurality of trays, thus giving all the advantages of a number of small trays for carriage purposes.

While the invention has been shown and described as applied to a sample-case for the use of salesmen, it will be obvious that the same construction of trays can be employed in connection with a receptacle intended for use as a trunk or as a handy article of baggage.

Having thus fully described our invention,

- what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. A case having a hinged front, a plurality of trays arranged in said casing and resting one upon the other, said trays having in clined side walls, and means for pivotally connecting the trays, said trays when drawn outwardly resting in a common horizontal plane, the inclined wall of each tray bearing against the inclined wall of an adjacent tray.

2. A sample-case having a hinged top and side, a tray secured to the bottom of the case, a plurality of superimposed trays, the bottom and top trays having one inclined side them together.

Wall and the intermediate trays hayiri" both Within the casing and i1! Vertical aliriemeiit 10 side Walls inclined, and means carried y the when swung into normal position Within the ends of the trays for pivotally connecting casing.

EDWARD J. THILBORGER.

3. The combination With a casing a plurality of trays having sloping Walls, said trays PHILIP LE CORGNE' resting snugly against each other in a hori- Witnesses: zontal position, and means for pivotally con- COLBY D. KNAPP,

necting adjacent trays, the said trays resting E. Y. AMEs. 

